Reserved words
Some programming languages permit you to
use words like if, which are normally reserved
as label or variable names, provided that such use does not
conflict with the valid use of these names in the programming language.
This is extremely hard to do in the framework of yacc.
It is difficult to pass information to the lexical analyzer
telling it this instance of if is a keyword
and that instance is a variable.
You can make a stab at it using the
mechanism described in the last subsection,
but it is difficult.
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